haha plax i am seething with rage and spoiling for a fight
― horseshoe, Saturday, 21 August 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
u r rong it is "hey! ain't we walking down the same street, together, on the very same day"
― plax (ico), Saturday, 21 August 2010 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
that is a v v nice delivery, also
― horseshoe, Saturday, 21 August 2010 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
so conversational!
just listened to the youtube of this as ive lost the album. do all youtube comments have to have some bit of masochistic nostalgia going on? makes me despair for humantity. i went for 'everybody sees your blown apart, everybody feels the wind blow'.
― Michael B, Saturday, 21 August 2010 23:07 (fourteen years ago) link
i like how the words play off each other there
windowheartblown apartwindblow
― ('_') (omar little), Saturday, 21 August 2010 23:10 (fourteen years ago) link
otm
― horseshoe, Saturday, 21 August 2010 23:10 (fourteen years ago) link
great album. great song.
― plax (ico), Saturday, 21 August 2010 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
best album of whatever year it was released
― Michael B, Saturday, 21 August 2010 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Alright in a kind of a limited way for an off-night.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Saturday, 21 August 2010 23:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Really can't listen to this album anymore having heard it at so many cinematographers' parties.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 22 August 2010 00:00 (fourteen years ago) link
If you listen to Live in Central Park, each NYC reference in the Simon oeuvre is met with extended whooping.
"There is a girl in New York City...."
WHOOWOOOWHOOWHWOHWOHOOOWHOOO
― Bag Smart, Street Stupid (Eazy), Sunday, 22 August 2010 00:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Haha, yeah. 'Counting the cars on the New Jersey turnpike' etc.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Sunday, 22 August 2010 00:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Has anyone seen One Trick Pony? Is it any good?
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Sunday, 22 August 2010 00:16 (fourteen years ago) link
its ... entertaining
― NOT FUNNY NEEDS MORE GUCCI (deej), Sunday, 22 August 2010 01:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, xps, 'Gumboots' is the best
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 22 August 2010 07:46 (fourteen years ago) link
i voted "for reasons i cannot explain some part of me wants to see graceland" -- b/c that's what I feel about graceland (and any number of other tourist traps).
― Voting with My Dollars for More Swill to be Made (Eisbaer), Sunday, 22 August 2010 14:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Some One Trick Pony discussion here:
Paul Simon - One Trick Pony, C or D
and maybe here:
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=31830
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 22 August 2010 15:07 (fourteen years ago) link
(that's "Do you believe Paul Simon when, in "Late in the Evening", he describes how he returns to the club after smoking a "J" and proceeds to turn up his amp and "(blow) that room away"?")
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 22 August 2010 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link
classic alex in nyc on that thread:
I believe the bit about smokin' the "j", but not about the room-blowin' (like he suddenly morphed into a diminutive clone of Yngwie Malmsteen).― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, July 22, 2004 8:59 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark
― Voting with My Dollars for More Swill to be Made (Eisbaer), Sunday, 22 August 2010 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
is there anyone right now writing lyrics this good and self-aware about the nyc hip-art-music-whatever scene? vampire weekend is the only band thats even attempting this i think and--i think theyre good lyricists--but theyre not paul simon
― max, Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link
tbf they've had two albums, what album was graceland for him.
― plax (ico), Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
all his albums have v good lyrics post-simon and garfunkel it's kind of his "thing"
― horseshoe, Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:19 (fourteen years ago) link
the 70s solo simon albums are so new york-y
like woody allen movies they have had a debilitating effect on my adult life
im not saying vampire weekend "should" be the new paul simon of lyrics, im just wondering if there is a 2000s paul simon
― max, Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
like if there was ever a 'scene' that could use a self aware lyricist with a good sense of humor about 'the scene'... its brooklyn ca 2010
― max, Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link
and the thing is vw are UWS brats not brooklyn brats
― max, Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link
i think it's clear what you have to do, max
― horseshoe, Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link
zinging is my art
― max, Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link
not lyrics
it's a fine line!!!!!
― horseshoe, Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link
too true, too true
in a lot of ways my tumblr is my graceland
― max, Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean you dont really need a graceland when you have the ny times in 2010:
http://celebraterickysargulesh.tumblr.com/post/418545344/brooklyn-2010
yeah i still think he did take a while to "mature" as a songwriter. the s+gf stuff is only intermittently good lyrically
― plax (ico), Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Come Anticipate Norah Jones's NYC Zingers.
I do think Craig Finn works at combining stuff that's never been in a song with specific snapshots of times and spaces with stream-of-consciousness, but it's not NYC.
― Bag Smart, Street Stupid (Eazy), Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
the s+gf stuff is only intermittently good lyrically
― plax (ico), Sunday, August 22, 2010 5:25 PM (43 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
it's true; i don't really like simon and garfunkel that much at all
― horseshoe, Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah finns a good lyricist, but hes not as funny as simon i dont think, or as self aware, and, crucially, from britain or alaska or somewhere
― max, Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^ my next point, actually. To be fair to both Koenig and Simon, the latter didn't stumble into his lyrical genius. S&G is often painfully, clumsily erudite.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Neil Tennant and Robert Forster wrote really good songs about scenes, but their time has passed, I guess.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, thats fine. i didnt really mean to rag on VW, im just wondering if there IS a 2000s-paul-simon-of-new-york, besides me and my tumblr
― max, Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
btw i have never seen this:
In 1988, Simon released a video for the song to promote his greatest hits compilation, Negotiations and Love Songs. The video features an introduction by rappers Big Daddy Kane and Biz Markie. The video depicts adults interacting with the youth of an inner city schoolyard where they dealt drugs. It shows Simon playing basketball and baseball with the children, and it also features basketball player Spud Webb, baseball legend Mickey Mantle, and football coach/commentator John Madden giving tips to young athletes.[1]
― max, Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
(thats re: me and julio)
S+G was writing genre songs in the same way that Simon always does, but he was getting Elizabethan and Hymnal Music out of the way early, saving zydeco and (on the great "Adios Hermanos") doo-wop for later.
― Bag Smart, Street Stupid (Eazy), Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
there's a making the album documentary where simon talks u through writing graceland line by line and it seems like anyone could have written that song, its kindof awesome.
― plax (ico), Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
idk i think his skill is in managing to be really evocative w/ the smallest parts "the child of my first marriage" is such a banal line but it also paints a massive backstory and dovetails so well w/ the forehead hair brusher l8r
― plax (ico), Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
the last line in this song always kills me. i'm not sure why.
― we wanted lime (mike a), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 04:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link